you take a National steel guitar Master,,mix up some Steve Earle,Jim White, the most intense Neil Young you can imagine..add Coltrane,Robert Johnson, and a healthy dose of Surrealism, and you start to get the idea of what Chris Whitley was about.
Hardcore, apparently never owned a real shirt, easily one of the most compelling..even frightening […]

Better than the Beatles…
this is from what is arguably a “Perfect” pop album…”Woodface”
Saw these guys in the Split Enz incarnation back in Perth W.A. around 83′..and was amazed..
Great group.. Crowded House even moreso.. and Neil and Tim both have fine solo lp’s as well.
if you ever have a case of the “Sunday Morning Coming Down..Blues”, […]

This Heat

Born in the years immediately preceding punk rock, This Heat produced some of the more forward thinking and uncompromising music of its time. Featuring players from London’s free-improvising circuit with links to the waning days of Canterbury’s whimsical and conceptual prog rock scene, they mixed a heady and confrontational stew of sounds that challenged […]

Mark E Smith has got to be one of the most brilliant lyricists as well and carries an unmistakeable vocal style.
TTTTTT,Totally Wired one of my favorite Fall songs.
I did’nt get to see ‘em until a later incarnation, which was still good, but this band here with Marc Riley and Karl Burns is vintage goodness. The […]